Comedy Is Not Pretty!

Steve Martin

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 26, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 1979
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino Flashback
• ASIN: B001CBW1BC
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,802 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It May Not Be Pretty, But It's Still Funny, February 23, 2001

By	Michael Daly "Monkeesfan" (Wakefield, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comedy Is Not Pretty! (Audio CD)

For 1979 Steve Martin returned to The Boardinghouse nightclub in San Francisco for his third comedy LP, even though according to Steve when they got the tape they took to to the studio and erased it.

Comedy Is Not Pretty, and admittedly this third LP isn't quite as good as Let's Get Small and Wild & Crazy Guy, in part because at points it is cruder, particularly in Steve's somewhat embarassing sketch on Jackie Onassis. It nonetheless does hold up well, from his accident with a drinking glass onward. His Sound Effects gag is quite funny, and he brings out his Wild & Crazy trademark when he growls that the audience thinks he's A Rubberhead.

Googlephonics, dealing with a subject one usually doesn't think about for comedy (stereo systems), is the most interesting track, in large part because it is almost a botch. Steve blows his lines repeatedly during the sketch, and it is here that the laughs come.

Steve's banjo gets work in two tracks. Cruel Shoes is the title story from the contemporaneous book he authored, while his deft deployment of the banjo shines brightest in the delightful Drop Thumb Medley.

From the taking of histages (the Iran hostage crisis gave the album an eerie topicality at the time of its 1979 release) through Steve's tips on becoming a millionaire, Comedy may not be Pretty, but it is still funny.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Steve Martin Classic, May 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Comedy Is Not Pretty! (Audio CD)

I first listened to this on 8 track when I was a kid and found this a classic rightaway. Martin shows that his witty humor can last into the ages. I highly recomend this to anyone looking for a good laugh. I've gone through some of my old comedy tapes and some were not as funny as I remembered, but Steves comedy is timeless and sophistication of the 90's can't ruin this. a definate must get, humor that doesn't requiring swearing and all the other acts today in order to be funny.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars sort of funny but......., June 8, 2006

By	Padre Pete (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Comedy Is Not Pretty! (Audio CD)

Steve Martin was marketed/managed VERY well in the mid 1970's. His first album "Let's Get Small" came out of nowhere and inspired many. His follow up "Wild and Crazy Guy" went a step down...some outtakes from the original album, and some more recent live stuff (see my reviews of those if you wish).

Then came this cd...which appears to be everything left on the cutting room floor...that should have remained there perhaps. If you are a fan, this is worth having as a collector...so we can hear when his comedy did NOT work.

So, if you want to have everything of Martin's...get this. If you only want something funny...then stay away...far away...from this cd, which could have been titled "Comedy is not Here"